 | America Libre
Publication Date: July 29, 2009After years of anti-immigrant backlash, anger seethes in the nation's Latino communities. The crowded streets bristle with restless youth, idled by a deep recession. When undercover detectives in San Antonio accidentally kill a young Latina bystander during a botched drug bust, riots erupt across the Southwest. As the inner-city violence escalates, Anglo vigilantes strike back with shooting rampages. Exploiting the turmoil, a congressional demagogue succeeds in passing legislation that transforms the nation's Hispanic enclaves into walled-off Quarantine Zones. ...
 |  | Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Publication Date: May 15, 2012In his prime, Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. He could outrun anybody. He never missed a day of school. He saved lives and tamed giants. Animals loved him, people loved him, women loved him. He knew more jokes than any man alive. At least that’s what he told his son, William. But now Edward Bloom is dying, and William wants desperately to know the truth about his elusive father —this indefatigable teller of tall tales—before it’s too late. So, using the few facts he knows, William re-creates Edward’s life in a series of legen...
|  | Annie's Truth (Touch of Grace, Book 1)
Publication Date: May 15, 2012| Series: Touch of Grace (Book 1) After learning the truth about who she really is, can this prodigal daughter be accepted back into the safety and security of home? Annie Beiler seems to have it all—a loving family in a tight-knit Amish community and the affections of an attractive and respected young man. But when she learns that she was adopted after being found as an abandoned newborn, she sets out on a journey to find out who she is. Her father is strongly against her decision to leave, as it could mean Meidung, or excommunication from the c...
|  | THE VAMPIRE COUNTESS
Publication Date: October 1, 2003In vita mors, in morte vita! In life, death; in death, life! The particular gift of Countess Addhema was to be reborn beautiful and young every time she could apply to the hideous bareness of her skull a living head of hair, a scalp, torn from the head of a living victim. This was why her tomb was full of the skulls of young women... Ren? recoiled in horror at the sight of his mistress restored to her real condition: the cadaver of an old woman, fleshless, cold, totally bald and already turning to dust..."After 1856, it would be a long time before any other w...
|  | Classic Ghost Stories
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|  | Las buenas conciencias (Spanish Edition) (With a Clear Conscience)
Publication Date: September 30, 2011This is the story of the spiritual journey that leads Jaime Ceballos through a labyrinth of forgotten memories up until the end of his youth when he decides where life will take him. In Las buenas conciencias, Carlos Fuentes vividly narrates Jaimes youth in which the young man debates himself on his familys moral values (easier to dismiss than to follow) versus his own religious impulses, good habits versus social relationships, the pain of living without his biological parents versus the happiness of discovering life, between sin and salvation.Spanish D...
|  | Love Pistols Volume 4: (Yaoi)
Release Date: February 12, 2008| Series: Love Pistols (Book 4) As Norio continues his training at Kunimasa's family estate, he meets more and more family members. But when he meets Kunimasa's mother, he encounters a whole new set of problems - as she begins an auction for becoming Kunimasa's fiance! Norio rushes to stop what could be the end to his relationship, but what does Kunimasa truly want? ...
|  | Yours for the Asking
Publication Date: December 15, 2009The responsible one. The steady, reliable one. Lauren Roberts has had her fill of it.Running her bed-and-breakfast like clockwork and hosting her younger, glamorous, songbird sister for the holidays only underscores Lauren's choice of order over risk. Kelly's vibrant and impetuous nature doesn't stick to anything--or any one woman--for long. That includes an old girlfriend of Lauren's who was dazzled by Kelly, then dumped, shortly after Lauren stepped aside.Old memories are sharply painful with Kelly under her roof. With the inn full, Lauren's patience and ...
|  | The Last Train West
Publication Date: April 19, 2012This is the fact-based WWII survival story of my mother-in-law, a German woman named Marqarete (Gretel) Sennhenn Prestbroten.She was a Kindergarten teacher in occupied Poland during WWII.Though based on fact, much of it is fictional.The story is violent, and politically charged with tastefully written sexual situations. ...
|  | Neurotica
Release Date: August 26, 2003If he always has the headache, why should you suffer?In the bestselling tradition of Bridget Jones's Diary comes this outrageous, hilarious look at love, marriage, and sex, introducing Anna Shapiro, who believes that surely there must be more to married life....Tabloid reporter Anna Shapiro can pinpoint the day, three years ago, that she and her husband, Dan, last had great sex. Anna would be grateful if something as ordinary as a mere headache was her husband's excuse; Dan's hypochondriac terrors include brain tumors, tropical diseases, and spontaneous combustio...
|  | Night Shall Overtake Us
Publication Date: May 1, 1994Four women take a pledge of eternal friendship shortly before World War I as the world they have known descends into chaos and their different destinies, which include obsession, murder, and insanity, begin to be played out. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. ...
|  | El s
Publication Date: 1999| Series: Clasicos Universales (Book 28) Una comedia comprometida con los problemas sociales y la de la realización mas felíz en cuanto al tratamiento del mismo en el plano literario y teatral. ...
|  | Tired (Hadithi Za Msingi Series, 7, 7)
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| | Contemporary Chinese poetry
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|  | Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality and Literacy (Advances in Discourse Processes)
Publication Date: January 1, 1982| ISBN-10: 0893910945 | ISBN-13: 978-0893910945As discourse analysis has turned linguistic attention to texts, it is crucial to understand the relationship between various kinds of texts.Spoken vs. written modes constitute one of the basic distinguishing characteristics of texts and is a natural stepping-off point for such an inquiry.Furthermore, all the issues of applied linguisticshow language affects and is used in everyday interaction, education, and various special settingswill be enlightened by an understanding of 1) the relationship of spoken to wr...
|  | Lost and Found
Release Date: November 1, 2001The author of Smoke in Mirrors and Soft Focus presents a sexy, irresistible story of two people searching for secrets—and finding each other…Cady Briggs is useful to Mack Easton. Her expertise in art and antiques helps his low-profile company, Lost and Found, find missing treasures for high-paying clients. But Cady knows that being useful to a client is one thing—and being used is another. So no matter how alluring she finds Mack, she plans to keep business and pleasure entirely separate.But then a sudden tragedy puts Cady in charge of Chatela...
|  | Heartstopper: A Novel
Release Date: March 25, 2008 New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding takes readers on a terror-charged hunt for a serial killer holding a small South Florida town in a vice-like grip of fear, suspicion, and violence. As Sheriff John Weber would attest, the deadliest predators in Torrance, Florida, were the alligators lurking in the nearby swamps. But that was before someone abducted and murdered a runaway teenage girl...and before the disappearance of popular and pretty Liana Martin. The pattern is chilling to Sandy Crosbie, the town's new high school English teacher. With a marriage ...
|  | Final Sail: A Dead-End Job Mystery
Release Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Dead-End Job Mystery (Book 10) Husband and wife PI team Helen Hawthorne and Phil Sagemont both have their hands full, but only Helen has to carry drink trays—as part of her latest undercover assignment as a stewardess on a private yacht… Lost at SeaTo catch a jewel smuggler on a luxury yacht, Helen needs to pose as the ship’s new stewardess—but between serving drinks to the snobs, scrubbing floors, and cleaning up after seasick passengers, she’s starting to miss dry land almost as much as she misses Phil.While Helen&...
|  | Paper Woman: A Mysteryof theAmericanRevolution
Publication Date: March 31, 2012Book #1 of Suzanne Adair's Mysteries of the American Revolution Trilogy. She expected the redcoats to solve her father's murder. The redcoats and her father had other plans.Inearly June 1780, the village of Alton, Georgia, is rocked by the triplemurder of the town printer and one of his associates, both outspoken patriots, and a Spanish assassin. Alton's redcoats are in no hurry to seek justice for the murdered men. The printer and his buddies have stirred up trouble for the garrison. But the printer's widowed daughter,Sophie Barton, wants justice for her fath...
|  | The Revenge of Ishtar (The Gilgamesh Trilogy)
Release Date: April 25, 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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